_Verses in Classical Prose_ (Vol. iv., p. 382.).--Merely as matter of
information, permit me to refer your correspondent A. A. D. to the notes
of Glareanus and Drakenborch on the first lines of Livy's preface, and
to the "variorum" commentators on the first line of Tacitus' _Annals_
("Urbem Romanam a principio reges habuere"), for a collection of
examples of the occurrence of verse in prose compositions.